ABSTRACT
A music therapist is sitting with a group of pre-school children. The therapist, who is a violinist, slowly and quietly takes the instrument out of its case, checks the tuning, tightens the bow and plays a single low sound, one beautiful tone. The sound emerges imperceptibly out of the relative silence, is held constant, rises to a peak of loudness and dies away back into the silence. The children look to the source of the sound, attend to it as if drawn along and sharing in this brief sound journey. No words are spoken, yet the atmosphere in the room changes completely and some form of non-verbal communication has taken place.
